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Direct Answer The transcript doesn’t provide a modern job list, but it gives principles for identifying “close enough” roles: work tied to idolatry, violence, sexual immorality, or jobs that force Christians to violate Jesus’ teachings or neglect worship; churches should draw lines by asking whether the job requires compromise, not by mere tradition.

Support from Transcript:

• Bercot lists excluded occupations: idolatry trades (making/selling idols, temple work), “any military position,” actors, charioteers/boxers/wrestlers/gladiators (and trainers), “sorcerer…witchcraft,” “prostitute or a panderer.”
• He notes one key disqualifier: any job that requires regularly missing worship or putting God “on the back burner.”
• Another key disqualifier: jobs that “by their very nature require you to compromise the teachings of Jesus Christ.”
• For military, he notes even exceptions required a commitment to “never use the sword…never execute anybody…never take an oath…never do anything idolatrous.”
• He explains acting was excluded because plays were tied to “pagan mythology,” “sexual immorality,” and “murder,” and the theater was “the chief sign” of conversion when rejected.
• He stresses Christians are “always a Christian…You can never set that aside,” so “end never justifies the means.”